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Monday, February 3, 2014

Lake Havasu with friends...

Showing friends around a town you've visited before (albeit two years ago) is different, and fun! Something we've not done in a long time - certainly not since we've been RV'ing, that's for sure! Lake Havasu was one of our first stops when we started out two years ago, "newbies" to RV'ing. Nice campground and nice area to get "acquainted" to RV'ing. Two years ago the weather was mostly colder with a day or two of sunshine that included their beautiful balloon festival. This year it was almost all sunshine, but we missed the balloon festival - a trade off I guess.

Having friends join us was a real treat! It was fun to know our way around and to have a couple of "favorite spots" - Mudshark Brewery for hamburgers and Donut Post for some of the best donuts anywhere! We never got lost either and that's always a plus! ;-)

Of course we took them to the London Bridge, but this time we all got a "new treat" and added a boat cruise to our day! Because the weather had been so cold before, it was something Jack and I hadn't done so it was nice to do this time. We did the two hour "lighthouse tour" and it was a delight. Capt. Rick was our guide and he was a wealth of information. He has been doing tours on Lake Havasu for over a decade and seems to know every nook and cranny of it. He certainly knew a lot of the history of the town and Robert McCulloch and his development of it in 1964. There are about 23 lighthouses (1/3 scale) along the 45mile long lake that are replicas of both east & west coast famous lighthouses. They are sponsored by individuals or by organizations. Jack and I laughed and said that maybe when I "go", we will put one up of the Pt Loma Lighthouse in my honor! ;-) Don't you think that would be appropriate?

Anyway...he also took us into some lovely coves along what's called "Copper Canyon". Beautiful color and rock formations. They have a sunset tour, that I wished we would have taken because I bet it would have really set those areas off beautifully! Oh well, something for next time. As it was, the day was a bit over-cast, so the pictures weren't as bright as I would have liked, but a fun trip all the same.

Another day we tootled on down "Main Street" and discovered it was the day they all bring out their classic cars! After a meal at a "new favorite" the Red Onion, we enjoyed handmade ice cream at Scoops and cruised up and down the street admiring the handy work of the car owners. Nice evening.

We managed to fit in a movie and of course some shopping! Some lazy days in the sun and plenty of laughter. On our last day we went over to the casino where they have the Da Vinci Exhibit. What a nice treat! Some lovely paintings and samples of his inventions. A great breakdown of the history of his life from birth to death all on one wall.

The
weather is changing here, cold and windy. Our friends have traveled on
and we are back on our own again. We have a week of "no plans" before
we are booked into Sedona
at our timeshare. We were going to try seeing some new country, a
place someone had suggested, called Cottonwood in northern Arizona, but
the weather is predicted to be in the 50's during the day...to cold for
us (wimps), so we've decided to turn this rig around and go south to
Phoenix where it's a bit hotter, at least for a few days! See, that's
what you can do when you are "free & easy" like us!

London Bridge, Lake Havasu AZ

Entrance to the London Bridge Village, Lake Havasu AZ

Capt. Rick aboard the Kon Tiki, Lake Havasu AZ

East Quoddy (New Brunswick Canada) Lighthouse

Copper Canyon, Lake Havasu AZ
Da Vinci's flying machines

Madonna of the Yarnwinder

...on the road in Arizona, Marie

If you wish to view the rest of the photos from this trip, you can at my
Flickr account at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/74905158@N04/

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2019- A NEW YEAR, A NEW JOURNEY

At the start of our grand adventure...

We can hardly believe it's now year seven for Jack and I, in our quest to "see the USA" in our 36' Tiffin Allegro Motorhome.

It all started in January, 2012, after retiring from the printing industry (Jack) and the San Diego Zoo (Marie). We sold our Escondido (California) home, put our remaining treasures in storage, bought the motorhome of our dreams (a 2008 little used beauty) and set out to see all that we could see!

Our only goal was to "follow the sun" as neither one of us are big fans of cold weather, especially driving in snow. Our first destination was to head slightly east towards friends. Several years ago we had a number of our friends who had abandoned the work-a-day-world in favor of a full-time RV life, two couples that had done that, now were living in Nevada, & Arizona and we wanted not only to see them, but to learn as much as we could from them!

With little more than their wonderful sage advise, we soon set off for the adventure of our life. We loved every moment of it; so much so, we are now going forth with year seven!

If you followed along with us during our first years, welcome to year seven, and thanks, as it's nice to have company (be sure to say "hi" sometimes)! If you are new to the blog, "welcome" and I hope you enjoy the trip.

You would think that after all these years, we'd "seen it all"...but no, we haven't! This is a beautiful country and we never get tired of discovering it. Every back road leads to a new and wonderful adventure! We finally have "crossed off" all the lower 48 states, but that doesn't mean there are no surprises left, no new campsites to explore, no new parks to visit and favorite spots to see once again!

We changed our "status" this year, in that we went from "being on the road full-time" to "being on the road part-time"...but the adventure is still the same!